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Date of source: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Article two of the Egyptian Constitution is not subject to the proposed constitutional amendments. It is, however, the main subject of heated arguments and discussions in Egyptian society. A debate was held at The American University in Cairo [AUC] about the proposed amendments.
Date of source: Friday, December 1, 2006
Following the mixed public reaction to the recent statements made by the Egyptian minister of culture, Fārūq Husnī, on the Ḥijāb, the People’s Assembly’s committees for Religious Affairs and Culture and Media held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the issue. In an attempt to...
Date of source:
The Swedish authorities handed
over to Egypt Ahmed Hussein Egiza, the leader of the
Tala’a al-Fath...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 6, 2001
The Islamic Research Institute issued a
statement declaring
its rejection of associating Islām with terrorism and explaining the true meaning of Jihād in
Islam. The
Brotherhood member Dr. Essam al-Erian said that the definition the Azhar gave of Jihād went along with
the
Brotherhood’s...
Date of source:
The Taliban ruling Afghanistan denied recent reports about its agreement to exchange two
Americans, who were accused, with another six aid workers, of Christian missionary activity in Afghanistan,
for
Omar Abdel Rah...
Date of source:
Montasser al- Zayyat, the lawyer of the Jamā‘āt al-Islāmīyah was interviewed by al-Midan, Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat. In the statements he gave to the three papers he commented on the initiative denouncing violence, the government’s reaction towards it, the differences between the Jamā...
Date of source:
The Brotherhood won 16 seats out of the 24 on the Bar
Association’s board.
Ragai Atteya, the government’s candidate, who they declared their support for, lost to the
Nasserist’s
candidate Samah Ashour, who won the Bar Association’s top post. Montasser al-Zayyat, the lawyer of
the
Gama’at al-...
Date of source:
The elections
of the Bar Association were postponed until February 24
because the quorum required by law was not
achieved. The Brotherhood declared its support for the government’s
candidate for the Association’s top
post, claiming that he was the best candidate. They also included the name of...
Date of source:
From his jail in the United States, Shaykh Omar Abdel
Rahman, the spiritual leader of al-
Gamaa’t al-Islāmīyah in Egypt, issued a controversial statement, in
which he withdrew his support for their initiative to
abandon violence. This initiative was originally
launched in July 1997.
Date of source: Monday, November 13, 2006
The
author
of the article, the lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood, justifies the outlawed group’s resort to violence.
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.